5 JANUARY 1929, Page 7

The World Wireless Conference in Washington in 1927, however, decreed

a reduction in the supply of wave-lengths for broadcasting, and the demand for space has, of course, been steadily increasing. The "new scheme extends the principle of nationality so that in future one wave-length only will be allotted to each nation, to be used exclusively by all the relay stations of that country. A feature of the Committee's report is the provision of a form of international control for ensuring the constancy of the nominal wave-lengths- that stability which is the first essential for broadcasting conditions as it is for trade and currency.